When The Day Is Long And The Night, The Night Is Yours Alone

It is starting to become glaringly apparent that there are certain things I simply cannot do. Actually I should rephrase that since I can theoretically do everything, there are certain things I simply cannot do well. This list includes but is not limited to sitting still for more than two minutes, keeping a normal sleep schedule, intimidating others (I still don't get why people laugh when I get genuinely furious seeing as how I am 6'2 and manage to yell even when I'm calm), complex math, and the latest addition to this list is play baseball. There are a few reasons for my general lack of skill in baseball starting with the fact that not only do I have no experience playing the sport I am also horribly out of shape. I may have never been the epitome of physical fitness but there was a time when I was halfway decent at most sports. Currently I can more or less hit the ball. There is a 30% chance that if a ball comes in my direction I could catch and there is 10% that any ball I throw will land within 5 feet of it's intended target. I would say I throw like a girl but that would be incredibly insulting to females everywhere especially the ones on our team who throw the ball quite well. That being said I am considerably better than I was in the pre-season game but I still have a ways to go if I want to say I am even "decent" at baseball. Also for some reason it took 4 days to write the first segment of this oh the joys of ADHD

Ok time for Post 10: A song you can fall asleep to. I'm going to skip the intro and just lay it on you today

I'm not a huge fan of the video since it makes the song depressing instead of soothing

So I went with R.E.M.'s Everbody Hurts for a couple of reasons. It's not overly loud and it's not so quite that you have to strain to here it , it's not upbeat but it's also not so slow you think your at a funeral, plus it's long enough that you can fall asleep before the next song starts and forces you start the process all over again. Everybody Hurts is a different kind of song compared to most of R.E.M.'s other work and the only other place in their catalog where you will find similar songs is on the 1992 album from which this post's song came Automatic For The People. It's also worth noting that the string arrangement on Everybody Hurts was composed by none other than Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones who was the Led Zep's "Quite One" mainly because he did his job well without fanfare and didn't subscribe to the theatrics of Jimmy Page, John Bohnam, and Robert Plant.

I've Been Uptight and Made A Mess, But I'll Clean It Up Myself, I Guess

I have decided that I should share with you things that are keeping me up at night. Not in the sense that they scare me or are troubling but just run through my head aimlessly. Most of the time it is music sometimes it may be books or things like that so today I have two videos from two different artists. Both of them respective legends.

First it is one of The Tragically Hips Earliest singles Last American Exit

And a more recent single from Tom Petty off his 2006 Album Highway Companion

Sorry I couldn't find the original music video but it is the album version of  the song and not a live performance or cover

I find both of these singles extremely fascinating for different reasons. For Last American Exit it is interesting to listen to the Hip's earliest work and see how much it has changed in the twenty years they have recorded music. Last American Exit is off The Tragically Hip EP which was made when The Hip intended to be a blues group however by their third album "Road Albums" all trace of the blues is gone and they have become a straight up Rock group.

By comparison Saving Grace sounds like it could have been off of the classic album he made with the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedo's. One of Petty's greatest strengths is that he never strays to for out into left field but also never sounds exactly the same. The fact that Petty was in The Traveling Wilburys with Beatle great George Harrison, ELO front man Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Bob Dylan only adds to his greatness.

Even if your not up late at night like myself defiantly check the videos out and don't blame me when you inevitably end up buying at least one of the songs on iTunes if not the entire albums they came off of.

I Get Ideas I Get A Notion, I Want A Nice Little Boat Made Out of Ocean.

So I wasn't going to post but for some unexplainable reason I got 9 readers today despite the fact I only got two on the day I published it. I am still trying to figure out the logistics behind "blogging" but I am slowly learning new things. I am slightly conflicted with it though because I want to have as many people as possible read this because it would be a giant ego boost (Yes I am aware that 90% of the people who read that last line will never read this again) on the other hand I mention people in here and I don't say the nicest things about them like my stupid roommate Jacko who I hope gets a urinary disease because he drives me and the The Man Child absolutely insane. Yes I know that I don't use real names but it is not hard for them to know I am talking about them which is why I don't post anything on Facebook and leave it for twitter and word of mouth. There is literally no point to that I am just killing time until my chicken nuggets are done.

I am linking to Marleys Blog again because she has decided to co-ordinate posts for March the 2nd for a month a after February resolution thing. I won't talk about the results until that day instead I give you an update from This Post. My dear dear mother found me some weird liquid thing that contains Melatonin and it works incredibly well. Three nights in a row I have gotten more than 7 hours of sleep and and was in bed before Midnight! This meant I was able to be at work by 8 A.M. to do show prep which meant my show sounded good which makes me happy! Ya that's right I used an exclamation mark for two sentences in a row because I was yelling the whole time. That Time I wasn't. Anyways there will be a new post on Wednesday at the latest possibly Monday or Sunday if I feel super ambitious. I won't but still I can pretend I will. My nuggets are done so I'm out

Baby, It's 3 A.M. I Must Be Lonely

It's kind of ridiculous that I didn't post anything for a whole week but it's been a long week for some reason. I am back to working evenings which means that the time I usually write stuff 6-Midnight I am now at work which messes things up. Once I am off work I come home and watch late night T.V. and anything I decided to record from when I was at work then around 2 I attempt to go to bed and maybe if I am lucky by 4:30 I am asleep. I am notoriously lazy and unmotivated so I generally don't wake up until at least Noon if not later then I have some lunch and do random house stuff like laundry and dishes and stuff until about 2. I will admit from around 2-3:30 there is a window of nothing where I could write stuff such as this but I generally spend it doing as little as possible. Then at 3:30 I go and either make or buy something to eat for supper later by 4 I am at work doing prep until 6. I apologize for just writing what is literally the most boring thing ever that is one of the downsides to just writing what happens to pop into your head. If you want to read something interesting and actually useful I would suggest checking out Just Putting It Out There it's a new blog a friend of mine has started and it has some neat stuff in it.

If anyone out there has a tip or trick for falling asleep please let me in on it I am in desperate need of a way to fall asleep. For the last few weeks it doesn't matter how tired I am I just cannot seem to be able to sleep. I toss and turn for hours and eventually I nod off. The good thing is that once I am asleep I am down for the count for a solid 5 hours or longer and even if I wake up I have no trouble falling back asleep but that isn't overly helpful when you know you have to work 6 A.M. and you go to bed at Midnight and end up tossing and turning until 4:30 and end up only getting 30 minutes of sleep. It's maddening it's to the point now where it doesn't matter how ridiculous it sounds  I will try it. I even tried using Nyquill but that did absolutely anything. If this keeps up much longer I will just resort alcoholism and drink myself to sleep. Actually I won't due to the fact that I wouldn't be able to afford it. Anyways if you have the secret to sleep let me know I am tired of not getting any sleep (Pun totally intended) I'll try not to go a whole week without posting anything this time!